They're specifically targeting cow's milk since they see it cruelty to animals. Human breast milk is fine with them.

PETA wants to put human breast milk in ice cream.

I suppose they will sell it in D cups.

I was bottle fed as a baby. Maybe that is why I am bipolar and schizoaffective.

I find this argument udderly ridiculous.

i find this has just as much (or as little) credibility as the anti-vaccination crowd.

3 kids, and the one I breast fed a solid year to a sippee cup is the one that is autistic. She never drank anything other than breast milk. She DID have a bad reaction to an MMR shot at age 2 months though.

Their arguments are more credible and based on sounder science than the chemical imbalance theory of bipolar disorder, etc. Here's the scoop, autism is a nebulous subjective grossly over diagnosed situation, sometimes an unfair characterization, sometimes a valid yet unique way of being. I'm on the side of the autism is a valid way of being folks. And of course humans weren't built to drink cow's milk though some of us do just fine with it, still while the mainstream a la New York Times peddles the myth that emotional distress is caused by genes independant of experience, I'd say PETA is doing nothing wrong here. If a kid really is horribly lactose intolerant, I'm betting it will make that infant/toddler/child distracted from all stimuli ouside of it's colon and that can look autistic.

Come on. The sky is pretty close to falling, back off of the extreme yet well intentioned cute little animal rights dudes. So one cow lives and one chick wears down instead of mink, how will that really hurt anyone, as thousands in your own communities writhe imprisoned in the filth and terror of "inpatient psychiatric care?"

Philip Dawdy: I mean what's next? "Milk causes schizophrenia."

It's already been done...

Got Schizophrenia?

University of Florida researchers reported in the March 1999 issue of the journal Autism findings from two novel animal studies indicating autism and schizophrenia may be linked to an individual's inability to properly break down a protein found in milk...

Source: Presumed Causes of Schizophrenia and Psychosis

It's the second "cause" listed in that blog entry. Note that I initially made that post back in Feb/2007. I probably included the bulk of the original article but the link I placed back to the source no longer leads to that article, it leads to a page on autism. It's a shame the original is gone but what I managed to preserve might point a finger in the direction of the original study that drove the PETA statement.

Dearest Philip:

This is a very sad moment for us milk drinkers and cow fans {tears rolling down face in dispair}, Now on your authority, I may catch Schizophrenia too. Damn it, is there nothing fun left that won't get you? {laughing}

Yours Truly,
Stan

In response to Sally, on the contrary, this "claim" IS NOT credible nor based on any sound science whatsoever. If you read the article above, the studies that they cited didn't even prove that there was a link. Being lactose intolerant and having autism are two very different things. Agreed that a lactose intolerant child could possibly demonstrate some symptoms of autism, again no evidence based study that the intolerance is causing the symptoms.
As a matter of fact, "the cute little animal rights dudes" are not well intentioned. They are pulling at the heartstrings of already frustrated families to support their cause. They should put a slaughtered cow up on the billboard and leave individuals with autism out of it.